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[avh8r]

Agreed in a lot of cases. However there can be times (e.g. email attachments, file uploads) where it's a rather useful defense layer.

[astrodust → avh8r]

You don't need an integral scanner, you need a scanner that can look through any persisted user files. You can write triggers for Amazon Lambda that trigger scans when a file is dropped on S3, for example.